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Ca: Lawsuit on hospital privacy breach gets court ok

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Dissent

Amy Woolvett reports: One of the largest medical privacy breaches in recent Canadian history could see almost 700 patients sue South West Health. A Supreme Court judge has given the okay to proceed with a class action lawsuit over the health authority’s patient information leak. In April 2012, South West Health learned that an employee…

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Health apps run into privacy snags

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Dissent

Twenty of the most popular health apps  transmit information – usually without user knowledge – to a web of nearly 70 companies, according to research conducted by Evidon for Financial Times. Read more here (sub. required).

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One-Hour Breach Notification Out of Final HIX Rule? Yes and No

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Dissent

Joseph Goedert reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in a final rule setting standards for health plans operating in state health insurance exchanges, has dropped a proposed requirement that privacy and security incidents be reported within one hour of discovery, while at the same time noting it is still required by other regulations….

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NZ: Patient details of students on stolen laptops

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Dissent

Patients’ privacy may have been breached after the Southern Primary Health Organisation clinic in Invercargill was broken into. Police are still investigating but Fairfax Media believes two laptops and two hard drives containing patient records were stolen. One hard drive is believed to contain the patient files of students who underwent the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)…

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HHS adds 13 breaches to its breach tool

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Dissent

HHS added 13 more breaches to its breach tool this week. Let’s start with the breaches we already had some information about and indicate what new information can be gleaned from HHS’s entries: The Vitreo-Retinal Medical Group breach reportedly affected 1,837. The California Correctional Health Care Services breach affected 1,001 inmates. The Indiana Family & Social Services Administration…

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50-State Report Unveiled; States Track Medical Data from Birth to Death Without Consent

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Dissent

A new report from Citizens Council for Health Freedom was released this week.  Here’s their press release on it: Today, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, CCHFreedom.org) is releasing the findings of one of its most important works to date. For the past eight years, CCHF has been researching health departments in all 50 states to find out how they use…

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